Hat niemand eine Meinung zu "named for someone" ?

"named for" is also fine

Danke.

I disagree - you are named after someone.

X is named after Y.

But Y could be another name for X.

I have never heard of and would never use "X is named for Y" (BE). Perhaps in other places where they speak English, or corruptions of it :)

Ulenspiegel - Next time I will FIRST read the link, before opening my "big" mouth :-)

Carly

"Ulenspiegel - Next time I will FIRST read the link, before opening my "big" mouth :-)"

I don't get it... I was saying how the formulation named + for could exist. I did read the link and, as I said before, being named for the mathematician doesn't make good sense to me.

I would concede that most of the wiki entry makes little sense to me!

the formulation on wiki seems completely wrong to me. I have never heard "named for" used in this sense.

You are "named after" sm.

Thanks. At least I have learnt that I should not
use and need not expect this phrase.

In England, we generally say "named after", but I understand that "named for" is widely used in America to mean the same thing.

> I understand that "named for" is widely used in America

This is sort of confusing to me now:
The only proponent of "named for" in this thread is Irish, isn't he/she?

willi winzig:
"Named for" is perfectly normal in American English. Remember you can use Leo's m link to check Merriam Webster, an American dictionary.

Main Entry: 1for
10 : in honor of : AFTER <named for her grandmother>
https://dict.leo.org/le?1772294

Ulenspiegel - Sorry for any confusion, I was agreeing with your example of "But Y could be another name for X."

willi - I'm American, and am named AFTER my aunts :-)

were they both called Carly? What a coincidence!

willi: Ireland is not England. It may well be that "named for" is also used in Ireland. I honestly don't know how common it might be there.

Wulli - LOL! Nope, most Americans have a first, middle and surname - so, my first is after my Dad's sister, middle name after my mother's.

Joe W.
I'd consider 'named for' for Irish usage unusual.
google gets 4,700 hits for "named for" site:.ie, but the majority are of the construction: "five players named for national team" which is legitimate.

"named after" site:.ie gets nearly 15000 hits.

I'm American, and I could easily say I'm named for my Grandma. So one proponent for 'for', although I could just as easily say 'after'.

Joe:
> Ireland is not England.
I already presumed that. But my point was that Ireland is not America.

I interpreted your "I understand" as though you deduced your
statement from this discussion. But now I understand that you
meant you knew of the American usage of "for".

all:
I think this discussion has clarified something to me.
Thank you all - and please do not mix up "willi" with "willy".
(And "wulli".)